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901.
by hirundo 5y ago
Could, for example, OSHA regulations prevent SpaceX employees from traveling on a rocket with unsafe working conditions? Is there anything that would exempt workers on the way to Mars from the same safety requirements that apply to the peop
902.
Comparing wolves and dogs: implications for human ‘self-domestication’(cell.com)
2 points by hirundo 5y ago|0 comments
903.
Helpful Questions to Nudge Teams Toward Good Decisions(mountaingoatsoftware.com)
3 points by hirundo 5y ago|0 comments
904.
by hirundo 5y ago
Apropos of nothing, GIMP is pretty darn good, no charge, no subscription. Ditto Darktable, Inkscape et. al.
905.
by hirundo 5y ago
I live in a rural area in New Mexico where jackrabbits are thick on the ground. I once counted 27 on the road at night in four miles. A couple of weeks ago I drove from home and three jackrabbits scampered away ahead of me. The road there i
906.
It’s Back: Senators Want Earn IT Bill to Scan All Online Messages(eff.org)
82 points by hirundo 5y ago|2 comments
907.
by hirundo 5y ago
Seal rebar in it to slow down concrete corrosion?
908.
The false narrative about bias in face recognition(reason.com)
2 points by hirundo 5y ago|0 comments
909.
by hirundo 5y ago
Karl, do you have any thoughts on the Simula One project? I see that you specialize in AR, but it looks like there is massive crossover in tech. The Simula team pitches this as the next popular form factor in business computing. Anything to
910.
by hirundo 5y ago
In 2020 they took my $99 deposit and told me I'd have service in the Summer of 2021. Then at the end of 2021 they sent an email saying that nope, it will be sometime in 2023. Now, this says I might get it this year if I pay an unafford
911.
by hirundo 5y ago
"If we can intercept a missile or rocket with an electrical pulse that costs a few dollars, we will essentially neutralize the ring of fire that Iran has set up" This sets up a steampunk scenario where the missile must be controll
912.
by hirundo 5y ago
It's easy to find information on all sides of the vaccine debate on Amazon. Just search for "vaccines" in books and they're all mixed together. Surely Young must disagree with many of them. Doesn't this put Amazon i
913.
by hirundo 5y ago
He had a chance to try to lose 80 pounds in six months, but didn't try because "it’s not the most healthy thing in the world to do". Things that are more dangerous than losing weight at three pounds per week for 26 weeks: 1)
914.
by hirundo 5y ago
I agree, and changed the reference to "claimed misinformation".
915.
by hirundo 5y ago
It is perfectly within your free speech rights to decide not to associate with anyone for any reason, and to argue that others should do the same. It is not pro free speech to use your free speech rights to attempt to suppress the speech of
916.
by hirundo 5y ago
> a perhaps uncomfortable reflection of who we are not a failing of AI It is a natural response to an uncomfortable reflection to blame the mirror. If only I can find the right fun-house mirror, I can forget about this annoying diet. Tha
917.
by hirundo 5y ago
I've frequently seen bullet points being treated exactly the way the author describes AND being treated: A reader will seize on a particular bullet and treat it in isolation, as if the other points didn't exist, nuance shredded. T
918.
by hirundo 5y ago
I can understand Musk's concern. The hatred out there against him is massive. Paying this kid off would probably only encourage -- rapidly -- more of the same to pop up though. But I suppose Musk has other options to protect his locati
919.
by hirundo 5y ago
If in order to eat meat I had to get together with a group of friends and kill a wild auroch with spears ... I'd do that.
920.
by hirundo 5y ago
If this worked it would be a prejudice detector. I find that I'm not entirely prejudice-free, choosing the death of adults over children and animals over humans. But I don't think I'd be comfortable with a car auto-pilot cho
921.
by hirundo 5y ago
How can "active enough to protect their health" be anything other than arbitrary, a value in the eye of the beholder? To take that fluffy indeterminate thing and use it to divide up society isn't much more than saying "w
922.
by hirundo 5y ago
"According to Sucuri researchers who investigated the case to figure out the actors’ goal, threat actors used the backdoor to redirect visitors to malware-dropping and scam sites. Therefore, the campaign wasn’t very sophisticated.&quot
923.
by hirundo 5y ago
"To me, the phenomenon of widespread trust in goofy claims is much more interesting than the fact of goofy claims not being real. What does it mean to trust science?" Science is a system to distinguish between a fact and a shibbol
924.
I Am Not a Utilitarian(fakenous.net)
1 points by hirundo 5y ago|0 comments
925.
by hirundo 5y ago
In the last few days several major publications have had articles discussing the grey areas of the covid response in ways that didn't seem acceptable recently. It feels like we've made a cultural shift from pandemic to endemic, an
926.
by hirundo 5y ago
A large increase in the efficiency of factoring large numbers into primes could break common security protocols and crash crypto currency markets. And it's clearly in the realm of quantum supremacy.
927.
by hirundo 5y ago
There was once a country that tried an experiment of a limited democracy that respected the rights of minorities, and constrained the rights of majorities, by ratifying a constitution that limited the powers of government to certain enumera
928.
by hirundo 5y ago
No. Democracy, as in two wolves and a sheep voting on what's for lunch, is just getting started.
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by hirundo 5y ago
There are numerous videos of robots traversing rough ground now. None of them can approximate a human athlete doing the same, yet. But I remember when the same was true of the best chess programs versus humans, and now the one on my phone c
930.
by hirundo 5y ago
See the Cole Memorandum. This was from the DOJ under Obama rather than the president, but similar policies can be made in an executive order. But Biden has been consistently against marijuana legalization. His power to make such changes is

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